The best artists among us are those who choose to live collaboratively with creative expressions that inform their own work. The songwriter who draws from the deepest wells of art, poetry, literature, theater, and philosophy manages to transcend the limitations of […]
Every singer-songwriter hopes for the kind of debut album that Annie Guthrie has produced on her just-released and long awaited, Dragonfly (out now on Rising Son Records). This is the kind of album that is not born from ego or the […]
When singer-songwriter, Eric Andersen, and violinist, Scarlett Rivera play Weber Music Hall in Duluth, Minnesota Saturday night, July 23rd, to benefit the redevelopment of the historic Duluth Armory Building, there is one unifying individual whose spirit brings the three elements together; […]
When singer-songwriters Alice Wallace and Rick Shea shared a bill at The Living Tradition Series in Anaheim, California last Saturday night, they were only 20 miles south of what was once a Mecca of country music in Compton, California where […]
Singer-songwriter Kris Kristofferson, who turns 80 this week, is known for saying, “heroes happen when you need ‘em.” If that is so, then I’ve needed Kristofferson — in persona, songs, stories, and poems — for the last 50 years. After writing so […]
The opening song on Brian Whelan’s latest, Sugarland (released March 25 on Line in the Sound Records), begins innocently enough. It’s a fairly typical rock and roll song start-up: there is the power chord from the rev-up of an electric guitar, with […]
“The only time I ever saw Guy Clark in person was a very long time ago. It was sometime around 1993 at The Coach House in San Juan Capistrano, California. The venue had stacked the bill with three local opening […]
There is a new South coming into view in America today. It is unfamiliar to our mainstream culture. It has found its voice in the common man, the songwriters, storytellers, poets, and musicians who work and live their lives beneath […]
Something happens when listening to singer-songwriter Sammy Walker that is hard to explain. On first listen to his new release of archived stripped down demos titled, Brown Eyed Georgia Darlin’, recorded in the mid-70s, it is easy to dismiss as yet another […]
The American torch singers, road house musicians, rock ‘n’ rollers and bluegrass pickers of times past had no idea where their music would travel; in geography and through the pathways of the soul. Norwegian country singer, Karin Wright, is a […]
